New Gr@v research students
Four new research students have joined Gr@v this fall: Jenzhi Yang, Ivo Sengo, Vasileios Vatellis and João Pino. Welcome!
Cosmology News & Events
Nico Sanchis-Gual joins Gr@v
Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, the only member of the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration working in Portugal, officially joined Gr@v and our research unit CIDMA. After his Ph.D. from the University of Valencia, Nico worked as a postdoctoral researcher at CENTRA-IST. He is an expert on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves from dynamical binaries. Welcome Nico!
Research position in Particle Physics
A call for an Initial Level Doctorate Researcher in Particle Physics at our group is opened. Deadline: 12th of November 2020.
XIII black holes workshop
The XIII Black Holes workshop will take place in Lisbon, on the 21-22 December 2020.
Discussion of the paper "An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations of Gravitation" by K. Gödel
Speaker
Eugen Radu (UA)
Event date
Venue
online (only)
Ends on
Event type
An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations of Gravitation
K. Gödel
Rev. Mod. Phys. 21(3) (1949) 447-450
Landmark papers
This page contains a preliminary list of landmark papers suggested by group members to be discussed in Journal Club sessions. Papers are organized by chronological order.
The asterisk (*) indicates that the paper has been selected for discussion.
Why can't time run backwards?
Speaker
Prof. Anthony James Leggett (Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, USA)
Event date
Venue
room 11.1.2 and online
Event type
We can all tell when a movie of some everyday event, such as a kettle boiling or a glass shattering, is run backwards. Similarly, we all feel that we can remember the past and affect the future, not vice versa.
Media coverage of the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize
Gr@v contributed to several media coverages of the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize. Expand to know more.
Gr@v in national TV
C. Herdeiro was one of the guests of Jornal 2, of RTP2, on October 6th, to talk about the Physics Nobel prize 2020. See the interview here (from 19:52 onwards).
